Well, yes, that was kind of my point...I think the Vietnamese in the countryside where the Agent Orange was being dropped and bored helicopter gunners were machine-gunning peasants and livestock from their passing choppers might have seen it as a genocidal war. But it's all a matter of opinion, right?

Certainly the USA forces were not officially sent on a mission to kill all the Vietnamese. Still, they did a pretty good job at killing a very significant number of them, many of whom were noncombatants.